Author : Gwendolyn Blackshear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Book Synopsis Teacher and Parent Perceptions Of The Effectiveness of a Summer Reading Program Engaging Urban Low-Income Elementary Students by : Gwendolyn Blackshear
Download or read book Teacher and Parent Perceptions Of The Effectiveness of a Summer Reading Program Engaging Urban Low-Income Elementary Students written by Gwendolyn Blackshear and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the summer months students forfeit their reading skills when not engaged in literacy activity. This loss of reading skill is much more pronounced in poor children, especially from minority communities. This loss has been dubbed "summer slide." "Summer slide" is synonymous with the ethnic achievement gap. This gap expands over the summer. Summer reading loss studies have also found that there is no real variance in literacy gains between rich and poor children during the school year, yet every summer poor children drop two to three months in reading skills while their higher-income classmates make modest gains. Researchers recommend interspersing literacy activity throughout a family's summer vacation, so their children will return to school reinvigorated, enthusiastic, and motivated to pick up where they stopped in June. This study explored the following questions, "What are the teacher and parent perceptions of the effectiveness of a summer reading program on underprivileged youth?," and "How did the summer reading program artifacts function as a set of systematic processes to interact with the mission of the program?" This case study, which is a multi-method qualitative approach to research involved the study of a case within a real-life, contemporary context or setting. The goal of this study was to analyze the teacher and parent perceptions of the effectiveness of a summer reading program engaging urban low-income elementary students. This study found that, in the eyes of parents and teachers, this summer reading camp overall was successful in bolstering campers' literacy skills over the summer, less some minor issues that needed to be improved in the area of discipline techniques.